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Shakespeare Was A Big George Jones Fan: Cowboy Jack Clement's [DVD]
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Genre | Country, Cowboy Jack Clement Shakespeare Was A Big George Jones Fan: Cowboy Jack Clement's |
Format | NTSC, DVD |
Contributor | Cowboy Jack Clement |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 1 |
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For more than half a century, Jack Clement has found himself surrounded by some of the world's greatest singers, songwriters, and instrumentalists. This was no accident. His brilliance was recognized early on by Sam Phillips whose Sun Records studio was the cradle of rock 'n' roll. A short list of the artists who have worked with Jack includes: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Chet Atkins, Elvis Presley, Kris Kristofferson, Paul McCartney, Townes Van Zandt, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Beyond country music, Clement produced three tracks for U2's Rattle and Hum sessions and an album for Louis Armstrong. In other ventures, he built four of Nashville's leading studios, produced a cult classic horror film and made perhaps the world's first music video with Don Williams in 1972, nine years before MTV launched. Riding the trail between Monty Python and Blazing Saddles, this film inspires with lessons of creativity, mortality, and the risk and glory of a self-made life.
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Cowboy Jack Clement "can't stand seeing a parade go by in a straight line," says an old friend of maverick songwriter-record producer Clement in Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan, a delightfully offbeat documentary. An assistant to Sam Phillips at Sun Records during the late 1950s, Clement was one of the few people in the room when Elvis Presley made his first recordings. He also had a big hand in developing the early careers of Sun artists Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis, advising the latter on switching from a country sound to pure rockabilly. Both the late Cash and Lewis appear in Shakespeare, as do quite a few other artists and notable music-industry figures who speak glowingly about Clement's penchant for always challenging prevailing winds of fashion. He is, after all, as Shakespeare tells us in a very funny anecdote, a man who had a hand in introducing Charley Pride, an African-American, to the predominantly white Nashville music establishment.
A former Arthur Murray dance instructor, Clement also wrote for Waylon Jennings, produced John Prine, built a couple of never-completed television specials around himself and his stellar friends, produced a bloody B movie (Dear Dead Delilah), spent most of his life perfecting an arrangement for the tune "Brazil," and even spearheaded this kooky but moving biographical film. Clement, as Kris Kristofferson points out, is a lot like Shakespeare's Falstaff, and he proves an easygoing and hugely fun figure rich in wisdom and love for life. The film basks in Clement's gently surreal sense of humor, takes many side roads, and even engages in a lot of sight gags, most of them provided by Cash. --Tom Keogh
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 5.3 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches; 3.2 ounces
- Item model number : DVDSHFA10566
- Media Format : NTSC, DVD
- Run time : 1 hour and 30 minutes
- Release date : September 4, 2007
- Actors : Cowboy Jack Clement
- Studio : SHOUT! FACTORY
- ASIN : B000UCH6XM
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #138,791 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #862 in Outlaw Country
- #2,245 in Classic Country
- #2,415 in Country Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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Writer: (It'll Be Me; Guess Things Happen That Way; Black Jack David; Ballad of A Teenage Queen: etc.) Producer: Johnny Cash, John Prine, Jerry Lee Lewis) Recording Artist and all about bon vivant, lover of life and a man for all seasons.
At last, there is the DVD, Shakespeare Was A Fan of George Jones. Pure pleasure. If there is one problem with the DVD, it is not long enough. The cast of singers who appear include Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Pride, George Jones and a collection of fine musicians.
Jack Clement's music career started out in Memphis and migrated to Nashville, but he never got caught up in the music formulas of Nashville. His charm, his wisdom and his humor are genuinely his. This is a spirited, joyful and funny DVD. And yes, the Johnny Cash Hog Nose observation alone is well worth the price of admission. I hope someone somewhere along the way video taped one of Jack Clement's two hour high holy, bible citing discussions with the great Sam C. Phillips. This DVD is a historical treasure of an important time and place in American Culture. Thank you Jack. No one like you.... now or ever.
I had the opportunity to record at Clementvision studios @'89 or so with Chance Martin who was executive producer of the old Johnny Cash show on ABC. Chance appears on this DVD as the voice of Shakespeare. Engineer David Ferguson whom i worked with on those sessions also appears.
This DVD brought back a lot of memories and gives a good insight behind the scenes with some of Nashvilles heaviest hitters. Also on this DVD is a rare glimpse into a side of Johnny Cash that was seldom scene by the general public. It is said that "Cowboy" was able to bring out the funny and whimsical side of Johnny that a lot of people didn't get to see. This is a MUST for any real Johnny Cash fans.
Enjoy!!!